In continuing his pursuit of lawsuits related to the release of his personal and business financial records, former President Donald Trump retained a new attorney to sue his niece Mary L. Trump, The New York Times, and several Times journalists.
In continuing his pursuit of lawsuits related to the release of his personal and business financial records, former President Donald Trump retained a new attorney to sue his niece Mary L. Trump, The New York Times, and several Times journalists. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court in Dutchess County, in one place praises Trump for his “public service” to America. The complaint is also, at times, long on invective, castigating Times reporters and Trump’s niece for allegedly engaging in an “insidious plot” to “smuggle” Trump’s records out of an attorney’s office as a “means of falsely legitimizing their publicized works.” The lawsuit does not point to specific falsehoods in the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting which the Times and its reporters produced (the causes of action include breach of contract, tortious interference and unjust enrichment claims; there are no defamation counts alleged, but the suit nonetheless claims the Times and Mary Trump were “motivated, at least in part, by their actual malice ” toward Trump). Tuesday’s filing was signed by Bedminster, New Jersey-based attorney Alina Habba, a founder and managing partner at the law firm Habba Madaio & Associates, LLP. The firm’s Bedminster offices are just a 10-minute drive away from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (the filing indicates the firm also has Manhattan office space). While this appears to be Habba’s first stint representing Trump, she did previously work on a matter tangentially related to former First Lady Melania Trump.
